DATE COMMAND OF LINUX
In this blog we will go through date command and various options supported by it.
- To display the abbreviated weekday
command: date +%a
2. To display full weekday name
command: date +%A
3. To display abbreviated month name
command: date +%b
4. To display full month name
command: date +%B
5. to display full date
command: date +%F
6. To display hours in time
command: date +%H
7. To display day of the year
command: date +%j
8. To display time in nanoseconds
command: date +%N
9. To display equivalent of “AM” or “PM”
command: date +%p
10. To display 12 hour clock time
command: date +%r
11. To display 24-hour hour and minute
command: date +%R
12. To display seconds since 1970–01–01 00:00:00 UTC
command: date +%s
13. To display day of the week (1…7), it would take monday=1, tuesday=2 and so on sunday=7
command: date +%u
14. To display hour and minute in numeric time zone format (+hhmm)
command: date +%z
15. To display alphabetic time zone abbreviation
command : date +%Z
and many other options are also available. To get into the manual of date in Linux , we use command → man date
This gives the user manual of date command with lot many options.
can refer the above given URL for other command options.
Hope you find my blog informative. Thank you ! 😊
